Jodie Foster
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1962-11-19 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Jodie Foster
Biography
Alicia Christian 'Jodie' Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. For her work as a producer and director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She has also earned numerous honors such as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013, was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016 and received the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary Palme d'Or in 2021.
Foster began her professional career as a child model and later as a teen idol in various Disney films including Napoleon and Samantha (1972), Freaky Friday (1976) and Candleshoe (1977). She acted in Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and reunited with him in Taxi Driver (1976) in a role for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Other early films include Tom Sawyer (1973), Bugsy Malone (1976), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Carny (1980) and Foxes (1980).
After attending Yale University, Foster transitioned into mature leading roles earning two Academy Awards for playing a rape victim in The Accused (1988), and Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). She also received a nomination for Nell (1994). Her other notable films include Sommersby (1993), Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Anna and the King (1999), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006), The Brave One (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Carnage (2011), Elysium (2013), Hotel Artemis (2018), and The Mauritanian (2021).
Foster made her directorial film debut with Little Man Tate (1991) and has since directed films such as Home for the Holidays (1995), The Beaver (2011) and Money Monster (2016). She founded her own production company, Egg Pictures, in 1992. She earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for producing The Baby Dance (1999), and directing the Orange Is the New Black episode "Lesbian Request Denied" in 2014. She has also directed episodes for Tales from the Darkside, House of Cards, Black Mirror, and Tales from the Loop.
Acting
(2025)
A Private Life
as Lilian Steiner
(2024)
(2024)
Hinckley
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
NYAD
as Bonnie Stoll
(2023)
(2021)
The Mauritanian
as Nancy Hollander
(2021)
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Love, Antosha
as Self
(2019)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Actress and Director
(2018)
Hotel Artemis
as Jean Thomas / Nurse
(2018)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Becoming Iconic
as Self
(2014)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self – Host
(2014)
Scorsese's Women
as Mother
(2014)
Early Directors on Directing
as Self
(2013)
Elysium
as Delacourt
(2013)
Beyond the Visible: The Story of the Very Large Array
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2011)
Carnage
as Penelope Longstreet
(2011)
The Beaver
as Meredith Black
(2010)
(2009)
Motherhood
as Jodie Foster
(2008)
Nim's Island
as Alexandra Rover
(2007)
The Brave One
as Erica Bain
(2007)
(2007)
Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
as Clarice Starling
(2007)
Girl 27
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
100 Films and a Funeral
as Self
(2006)
Inside Man
as Madeleine White
(2006)
(2005)
Flightplan
as Kyle
(2005)
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
(2005)
(2004)
A Very Long Engagement
as Elodie Gordes
(2004)
(2004)
Shooting 'Panic Room'
as Self
(2003)
Abby Singer
as Jodie Foster (uncredited)
(2002)
Panic Room
as Meg Altman
(2002)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
as Sister Assumpta
(2002)
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
(1999)
Anna and the King
as Anna
(1999)
Making 'Taxi Driver'
as Self
(1998)
Everest: The Death Zone
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
(1998)
Three Gorges: The Biggest Dam in the World
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
Contact
as Ellie Arroway
(1995)
Cinefile: Reel Women
as Self
(1994)
Maverick
as Annabelle Bransford
(1994)
Nell
as Nell Kellty
(1994)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
All About Bette
as Self
(1993)
Sommersby
as Laurel Sommersby
(1993)
It Was a Wonderful Life
as Narrator (voice)
(1991)
The Silence of the Lambs
as Clarice Starling
(1991)
Little Man Tate
as Dede Tate
(1991)
Shadows and Fog
as Prostitute
(1991)
(1990)
Catchfire
as Anne Benton
(1989)
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
as Narrator (voice)
(1988)
The Accused
as Sarah Tobias
(1988)
Stealing Home
as Katie Chandler
(1988)
Movies Are My Life
as Self
(1987)
Five Corners
as Linda Komkowski
(1987)
Siesta
as Nancy
(1985)
Mesmerized
as Victoria
(1984)
The Hotel New Hampshire
as Franny Berry
(1984)
The Blood of Others
as Hélène
(1983)
Svengali
as Zoe Alexander
(1982)
O'Hara's Wife
as Barbara O'Hara
(1982)
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
(1980)
Foxes
as Jeanie
(1980)
Carny
as Donna
(1978)
Mickey's 50
as Self
(1978)
Grease Day USA
as Self
(1977)
Beach House
as Teresina
(1977)
Candleshoe
as Casey
(1977)
Stop Calling Me Baby!
as Isabelle Tristan
(1976)
Taxi Driver
as Iris
(1976)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
as Rynn Jacobs
(1976)
Freaky Friday
as Annabel Andrews
(1976)
Bugsy Malone
as Tallulah
(1976)
Echoes of a Summer
as Deirdre
(1974)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
as Audrey
(1974)
Smile Jenny, You're Dead
as Liberty Cole
(1973)
Tom Sawyer
as Becky Thatcher
(1973)
One Little Indian
as Martha
(1972)
Napoleon and Samantha
as Samantha
(1972)
Kansas City Bomber
as Rita
(1972)
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
as Pugsley Addams (Voice)
(1970)
Menace on the Mountain
as Suellen McIver
Crew
(2024)
Alok
Executive Producer
(2019)
Mouthpiece
Thanks
(2018)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Executive Producer
(2016)
Money Monster
Director
(2011)
The Beaver
Director
(2007)
The Brave One
Executive Producer
(2002)
(2000)
Waking the Dead
Executive Producer
(1999)
George Romero's Golden Tales 2
Director
(1998)
The Baby Dance
Executive Producer
(1995)
Home for the Holidays
Director, Producer
(1994)
Nell
Producer
(1991)
Little Man Tate
Director
(1985)
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Director
(1978)
The Hands of Time
Director, Writer